And it came to pass that the Teacher entered the small village of Nyos. The people of Nyos were idolators and worshippers of false gods and had no love for the true God. And so the Teacher spoke with the village elders and its holy men to teach them of the one true God, but they would not hear.
And the people of Nyos continued in their evil ways as adulterers, liars, thieves and murderers.
And God found the people of Nyos to have no goodness and they were disgusting in His eyes. And so He poisoned the very air so that all their cattle died and the very birds dropped from the skies and the waters of nearby Lake Nyos turned red as blood with the Lord's anger, and for every one man, woman, or child that lived, 7 did not...
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Stop for a moment and imagine that this is a scripture in the Bible. Compare it with the stories of the Great Flood, Jericho, Sodom and Gomorrah... all those stories about how God has and one day will again bring his wrath upon the "unfaithful" (meaning, people who won't simply obey his priests' decrees).
Now, read this... - The Strangest Disaster of the 20th Century
*edit: Oops, noticed the name of the village was actually Nyos.